purani jeans...aur guitar

few days back...i logged into orkut and to my surprise, found abt 50 new scraps...as a reflex action..i raised my left eyebrow, looked towards the ceiling fan... n started wondering wat was that all about...yeh kya horiyaaaye....na toh aaj apun ka happy b'day to you hai..aur na hi apun ne himesh reshamiya look-alike-sing-alike contest jeet liya hai...to fir itne saare scraps kyuon aaayele hain baap!!...the 50+ scraps were from two of my frnds...vaibhav n varun...it was just another idea from there destructive brians..they didn have yahoo messenger working in thier offices that day..so decided to chat through orkut...but... in my scrapbook

surprised??..well dont be...this super intelligent bunch of people(dese two n a few more) called my friends are capable of doing even more crazy stuff as i found out in collg...although i was the target of almost al there pranks....i enjoyed them as much as they did.

I met vaibhav right on the 1st day of college...when we were checking the time table to get into the class as soon as possible n escape getting ragged....but as everyone who had studied in my collg....ITM(institute of technology & management) knows...ragging is non-exsistant...atleast inside the campus...as the senoirs are more scared of getting suspended....yeah..thats how ITM is...one of my frnd was slapped with a 1000buck fine and a 1 week suspension..just coz he took a short cut out of the canteen...using the window instead of the door..poor chap..some grumpy prof spotted it...n punished him as if he had proposed the prof's daughter...

inspite of these dese strict n at times ridiculous rules..collg years were the best...thanx mostly to the frnds i made....so vaibhav me n..varun were together most of the time...well..we were gud frnds..but also...our roll numbers were consecutive....so it meant that we were in the same groups in all the labs.....n labs were the place we had most fun...doing all kinds of crazy things with resistors..transistors...diodes..capacitors....mostly trying to scew up oder ppl's apparatus.....franlky...most of my time was consumed in figuring out which one was what...let alone doing the actual experiment....the only relation between me n Electronics was the letter 'E'...which appeared quite often on my practical's grade sheets..

in classes...we were chronic back benchers...i don know if this has ever happened to u....but whenever the papa-ka-honhaar-beta-going-to-be-a-good-engineer inside me woke up..n gathered the courage to sit in the front row..n try to understand what.. 60yr old man is talking abt maxwell's equations...i wud immidiately get the symptoms of yellow fever or something...aankhon ke aagey andhera chaa jata tha..saans nahi li jaati thi..aur chakkar aate they....so...after a few attempts..i just dropped d idea...n returned to the peaceful world of the last row...eating lunches...sending sms to d guy sitting in d front row..to wake up...n if me n varun happened to be sitting together....singing jagjit singh ghazals...yeah...we were one weird bunch

the scenes in the flat in we stayed in was no different...as most enng students..staying in a hostel...or a PG...we were always living below the poverty line...not that we looked like ppl from some refugee camp in somalia...but we were mostly broke....so we used to come up wid our own innovatives ideas to cut down our expenditures...the following coversation might give u some idea

apparantly...my folding bed was broken wen a frnd had jumped on it trying to grab a centre-fresh tossed up in the air...so..i had no option but to shift to the floor...n vaibahv being a true frnd also abandoned his folding so that i woudnt look like his servent sleeping on the floor...n his folding bed was now the place to find everything...clothes(both clean n dirty...books..empty water bottles...etc etc..

me(squashing the 18th machhar for the nite): yaar vaibhav...aaj bade machhar hain..all out on nahi ki kya??

vaibhav(busy finding his practical file in the pile of clothes, books and a whole lot of stuff on the bed): kar di thi...yeh itne kadpe kyuon hain bed pe??? kiske hain yeh??..kitne log rehte hain yaha??

me(wanting to spary 5 bottles of baygon into our room): arrey...yaad aaya..all out to khatam ho gayi thi...tu refill le aaya tha uski aaj??

vaibhav(giggling in his own unique way..n i knew that anoder pathetic idea was around the corner) : tu bhi pagal hai...maine all out on kar di hai...usmain lite jal rahi hai...ab machharon ko kya pata hai ki woh khaali ho gayi hai...itni akal hoti to kya machhar hote woh...dekha...maine paise bachaye aaj

i now wanted to spray all those 5 bottles at vaibhav...but vaibhav was just being..well vaibahv...had a ball being his room mate..this guy wud come up with a joke in the most hopless of situations n make evryone laugh...nevr saw him upset or angry...same goes for varun...u spend 5 min with this guy....n u'll be holding ur stomach

exam time was no different...the bhaichaara between all of us was on a real high during xams...with me n vaibhav dividing the course betwwen us...but after we saw the paper..cursing each other..saying....arrreyyyyy...yeh 5 questions to tere part ke hain...kuch nahi padha tune...ab dono fail honge

there was anoder incident that stands out...EMT(electro megnetic technology)paper was on next day...n we didn have a clue abt this subject....it was late in the nite n MR i-know-eveything-abt-maxwell-n-his-equations-vaibhav...closed his book n told me..dat no matter how hard i studied that nite...he wud get more marks....now this was just not acceptable to me n i challenged him that my score wud be twice at him(thinking in my mind...kuch zyada to nahi bol diya)....we the exam was really scary...n we walked out without spending much time...but as it turned out...i won the bet....vaibhav had got 1 and i had managed 2 out of 20...i don think any guy who got 2/20 any any test wud be as happy as i was that day

well...this post wud make it to the guiness book for the longest post if i mention all the things we did..and i havent even started abt the 2 other culprits...hemant..n saurabh..i'll keep their exploits and adventures...for some other time....raelly...i feel collg years r d best in everynes life...so if u r in that stgae of life..enjoy it to d fullest..

mera chaand mujhe....aaya hai nazar

arrey...yeh kaaaun kambhakt hai jo hamare chand ko chura raha hai....??

This is not the great dilip kumar...trying to impress nutan with a romantic dialogue in a black n white movie....its lunar eclipse time people....when earth comes between the sun n the moon which results in the moon disappearing in the earth's shadow...well... actually it is still hanging there in space, but we cant see it for a while...not getting?? ok.... picture this...a grasshopper( too high on vodka to fly) sitting on the road staring at his frnds having a great time flying around a huge street light...n sunddendly an elephant passes by..the shadow of the giant completely covers the poor fellow....and he gets eclipsed....still not getting??...well..go n grab a 3 standard science book...i'm sure u bunked all ur science classes just as i did

so as thers an eclipse today...and being the superstituos guy that i am... i faithfully did all the things as prescribed by the bestseller "101 things u must do during eclipse to avoid bad luck"...... completely normal stuff guys...like....ate with my left hand all day( which resulted in a big oily stain on my t-shirt)...gave the eclipse special food(d recipie was in d book) to the cow oustide, which resulted in a rather grumpy look from her( what did she expect...i'll give her domono's pizza or what)....n finally put the holy taabeez (which came free ) around my neck.....bas..ab koi bhi maai ka laaal mera kuch nai bigaad sakta

just kiddin guys...its just the non stop coverage of this event on aaj tak getting to me...chandrama par giri..dharti ki chhaaya.. as they call it...as if doom's day is just round the corner....all kind of experts(mostly weird looking astrologers) r called in to guess how this would effect people's life....then they show people taking a dip in the holy ganga...some of those looked like belonging to a group called....dilli jal board ke sataaye log..jinke yahan mahino se paani nahi aaya....i enquired from my mom...what dis taking-a-dip-during-eclipse crap was all about...n she said that it was considered auspicious...

just then i had an idea that i could prove to my mom that i wanst a complete atheist...n still had some of her genes left in me...i asked her if taking a shower wud be counted as auspicious....her look said it all though..and i immidiately brushed aside the thoughts of a midnight shower

but the aaj tak guys..still managed to save the day for me...as they interviewd a really pritty girl at the nehru planetoriam....she was surrounded by a whole bunch of guys....who seemd to think that this coming live on TV(aaj tak) was their 1st step towards becoming the next mithun...
these wannabe superstars just kept staring at the camera with eyes wide open....as that girl answered the questions...while adjusting her hair frequently...

maa kassam... she looked so gorgeous....i bet that the correspondent was also lost in those pretty eyes as he kept asking her silly questions like... aaap ko kaisa lag raha hai yahan panetoriam main chandra grahan dekh ke....kya aaap pehli baar chandra grahan dekh rahi hain...just trying to buy more time .... n all this while....the guy sitting in the studio....wanting to be in his place... is helplessly.. waiting for him to point the camera towards the moon...

so he finally speaks...(trying hard not to sound angry)..."dibaang...zara humare darshakon ko asleee chaand ki tasweerain dikhain".... dibaang turns towards the camera looking completely blank..it takes him a few seconds to wake up to the fact that he is actally a news correpondant...n finally the viewers get to see the real thing....a complete lunar eclipse

well...who says aaj tak is a crap news channel...the interview lasted for just about 5 minutes...but for me..its was the best part of the non stop coverage called chandrama par giri..dharti ki chhaaya....

and the raj kumar inside me suddenly woke up n said...dileep jaaani...chaand aaj aasmaan main nahi...nehru planetoriam main nikla hai

kya mujhe pyaaaar hai

heard dis song a few days back..."kya mujhe pyaar hai" n i cant get enough of it...kk has been giving some real good songs off late...bas ek pal...teri yaadon main n ofcourse...my current fav... tu hi meri shab hai... what wud i do widout music...for me the invention of music was much more significant dan other important things like fire...wheel and even deodrant...

i don't how it happenes but whenever i'm feeling low....and disheartened....due to various things.... like... my career(or rather lack of it)...having no clear lakshya for my life....aishwarya rai not reciprocating my love for her.....i hear a nice song and suddenly things seems much happier ..i see myself sitting in a swanky office....miss rai dreamimg abt me....and within minutes i'm up and smiling again...i'm sure music does the same kind of things to most of u...except for d aish part

this is one of the toughest periods of my life...with having no luck in my job hunt...i've completed the quota of getting boured for the next 1 year perhaps...but no matter how much i crib...things will get better only if i keep on trying....and unlike most of my college mates who hardly like the work they are doing...i hope i dont hav such issues..coz at the moment...i'm almost desperate to get any kind work....(hey...don use ur imagination here)....but you never know what life throws at you..and may be i'll also crib about going to the same ofice doing the same bouring work..and wanting this sort of free time to come back...

enough of this sad stuff...watched titanic today(well twice in abt 4 days...star movies zindabaad)...theres one scene which i feel is one of the most romantic moments captured on a camera...this when jack(leonardo) is standing at the edge of the ship..rite next to the railing..and ...rose(kate)...comes to meet him...

rose: jack...i've changed my mind
jack turns around n notices her standing behind him
rose: i've come....
interrupts her in between
jack: shhhh...dont say anything...just hold my hand..

he then brings her to the edge..next to d railing n asks her to close her eyses....helps her climb one step on the railing..holding her carefully all this while...he is now satnding just behind one..both one step on the railing

jack: rose...u trust me??
rose(with her eyes still closed n a few butterflies in her tummy) : yes..i do
jack removes her hands from the railing..n spreads them like a bird's wings...rose opens her eyes...n finds that shes flying

wow.... my remote shud have had a button to pause that scene...she was so happy at that moment...both of them had forgotten abt all there worries..they were just living that moment...jack didn knew wat would happen b/w them...all he wanted was to giveher true happiness...even if it was for one single moment on that railing on the edge of the ship

i wish i could have done something like that...no..i'm not talking abt standing on the grandest ship ever built...coz...i'm sure if i was dere..things wud have been a bit different..i would have fallen off the railing...trying to be all romantic...rose wud have married that rich guy n titanic woudnt had won so many oscars....but i'm talking abt the expression on rose's face...i wish i could give "her" the same kind of happiness...even if it was for a one single moment...but more importatly..."she" should have such moments all thru her life...if i get to be a part of those moments...i'll consider myself as the luckiest guy on earth..jupiter n pluto combined...but even if i dont...i'll be as happy as a sardarji (after being judged as the wisest man alive)...just becoz...."she" is happy

but for now..its back to kk...and his silky smooth voice...guess this post was a side effect of an overdoze of kk....shaan..n sonu nigam songs...dat too at 2 in the night...so chill guys.......m still normal and still the jerk i used to be .